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What are the oldest objects in the universe? Ancient stars, planets, and galaxies explained

While next-generation telescopes will help us know for sure, astronomers have discovered some objects dating to not long after the Big Bang.

Inverse · Apr 25, 2022

Look! Astronomers may have just discovered the most distant galaxy ever

In a pair of papers, astronomers describe HD1, an object from the early universe that may be both the most distant galaxy ever observed and the most distant cosmic object ever seen.

Inverse · Apr 7, 2022

Astronomers think they've just spotted an 'invisible' black hole for the first time

Astronomers famously snapped the first ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. But many black holes are actually near impossible to detect. Now another team using the Hubble Space Telescope seems to have finally found something nobody has seen before: a…

The Conversation · Feb 7, 2022